Hello Paul!

Tuesday October 01 1996 11:22, Paul Wankadia wrote to Ian Smith:

 IS>> Doubt I'd ever buy an HST-only modem, however cheap, but that bloke up
 > Would people ever have bought HST-only modems in the past -- was it ever
 > THAT popular???

I think Ian's referring back to the not so distant past where the best ITU-T
(or then CCITT) standard available for dialup was V.22bis -- 2400. So USR
would sell a modem which did V.22bis (and V.22 and V.21), and also HST,
which was probably 9600 at the time, although HST was later available in
14.4 and 16.8, and even 21.6 with ASL "Adaptive Speed Levelling"
I believe.

The original Trailblazer did only V.22bis and PEP, PEP being a half duplex
protocol (like HST) which had a maximum speed of 18031bps. I think a few
people reading this will still have scars from the amount they paid for
various Trailblazers.

Just looking at my nodelist (which I admit is from last July), PEP seems to
be more common than HST still in Australia.

Regards,
Hamish

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